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(No'ModeL) v G. A. WESTON 81; H. R. PROGKTER.

TICKET GAS E.

Patented Mar. 17, 1885 NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

GEORGE ALBERT wEsTON AND HENRY RANDALL PROOKTER, OF 6 PARK STREET,OROYDON, COUNTY OF sUER-EY, ENGLAND.

TICKET-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of- Letters Patent No. 314,090, dated March17, 1885.

Application filed June 16, 1884. (No model.) Patented in EnglandFebruary 19, 1881, No. 3.608; in France June 4, 1584, No. 162,551; inBelgium June l, 1884, No. 65,375, and in Germany June 13, 1884, No.30,536.

To all whom it may concern.-

'Be it knownthat we, GEORGE ALBERT WEsTON, railway clerk, and HENRYRANDALL PROOKTER, commercial traveler, both of No.

5 6 Park street, Oroydon, in the county. of Surrey, England, subjects ofthe Queen of Great Britain, have invented certain new and usefulimprovements in apparatus for containing and delivering tickets,receipts, or continuous lengths of paper, or other similar materials,

2O terior of which cannot be arrived at without injury to the outercovering, and this box or receptacle contains a continuous strip,ribbon, or roll of tickets. In one form of apparatus this stripor ribbonis coiled round a central drum or roller which revolves on a fixedspindle attached to the top and. bottom of the box or case. The strip.or ribbon of tickets is pulled out of an aperture or slit in the box asit is required, and its passage out is through a channel passing partlyaround within the interior of the box or receptacle, and fitted withseveral pairs of flexible lips or detectors, by preference of stiffpaper. The

strip or ribbon of tickets is clipped 0r checked by means of saidflexible detectors, which form a brake and prevent its accidental or toorapid withdrawal, and at the same time they guard the port or aperture,being directed toward the exit, so as to preventthe reinsertion of 4 thestrip or ribbon after withdrawal or the insertion of false receipts ortickets. In another form of our apparatus the box or case contains thecontinuous strip or ribbon of tickets folded instead of coiled orrolled. The strip or ribbon is led through a passage in which it isclipped or checked by means of flexible detectors, as before described.At its exit from the chamber of the box the delivery of the folds isregulated by flexible guides.

The tickets forming the continuous ribbon are I consecutively numberedor otherwise. \Vc prefer to have the said strip indented across andbetween each ticket, to facilitate the tearing off of the numberrequired.

of tickets or receipts, each of which represents a fixed and equalamount, which may be the whole or aliquot part of thetotal valuereceived.

The box for containing the tickets may be made of inexpensivematerials-such as paper of wood, and these materials may be treatedwit-h varnish or water-proof composition, so as to render them lessliable to the effects of low cost and easily closed, so that no accesswhatever could be had to it without so injuring it as to indicate whathad been done. The cost of the box thus made would be so trifling thatwhen the tickets were expended the box could be destroyed.

These tickets are, suitable for use on tramways, omnibuses, steamboats,for admissions, sales, &c., or for any purpose where tickets or checksare required to be issued for value received. Thus for a tram-car a boxof tickets consecutively numbered, and each ticket made to represent acertain sumsuch as a pennyis given to a conductor who issues to eachpas: sengcr a slip of tickets corresponding to the number of pence paid,and as he cannot replace any of them inside the box after withture showsat once how much he has received.

As an additional safeguard against fraud boxes of tickets of differentcolors can be used.

Although we prefer the apparatus to be constructed of paper or cardboard with wooden roller-spindle and button, as herein described, thecase or any of its parts may be made of any other suitable material, andscaled up by means of a metal or paper label or seal, or otherwise, andopened for the insertion of fresh continuous strips or ribbons andsealed again as often as required.

In order that our said invention may be more fully understood andreadily carried in to effect, we will proceed to describe the drawingshereunto annexed.

In the drawings, Figure The aforesaid ribbon may consist of a series orcard boardthe roller and spindle being damp. The box could thus be madeat a very' drawal the number on the ticket at the aperl is a plan'of abox form. Fig. 7 is aside elevation of another modification. Fig. 8 is avertical section thereof.

The apparatus here shown consists of abox constructed of card-board. Ithas circular ends A A, and they are connected together by the side orperiphery B of the box. This part B isa scroll of cardboard, one end ofwhich overlaps the other so as to inclose a guide-channel, O, with anentrance at O and an exit or delivery-mouth at C". To stiffen the end ofone part, B,which forms the outer side of the mouth the card-board isformed into a small roll, as the drawings indicate. The ends A A of thebox are also connected by a central spindle, D, which has heads D l)cemented or glued upon it, and these in turn are cemented or glued tothe parts A A.

E is a reel or roller, capable of turning freely upon the spindle D, andon it there is wound a continuous strip of paper, F, suitably printedand prepared, to serve as tickets or receipts- It is convenient thateach ticket should be separated from the next by an indented line whichwill facilitate the separa tion of the tickets; but in thus indentingthe continuous paper care must be taken not too much to weaken thematerial.

It will be understood that the roll of paper F, when the parts are firstput together, is as large as the box is capable ofreceiving. It isrepresented in the drawings as it would appear when the box has beenmore than half emptied by the withdrawal and issue of tickets. The endof the paper F is led away from the reel or roller through theguide-passage C to which it passes by the entrance and outthrough thedelivery-mouth O WVithin the guide-passage it passes through severalparts of flexible lips or detectors G G, which are simply portions ofcardboard of a width somewhat exceeding that of the paper strip F. Theseare bent on themselves, as is seen in Fig. 2, and they are fixed by glueor cement to the opposite walls or sides of the guide-passage C; butthey are not attached to the ends A A of the box with which, indeed,they do not come in contact. These guide-lips or detectors each exert agentle pressure upon the paper, so that the slip of paper cannot escapefrom the box accidentally, but, nev ertheless, can be drawn out asrequired without fear of injury to the strip or its becoming displaced.Thelips or detectors G also render it impos sible to push back thetickets through the guide-passage C after they have once been drawn outof the box.

The apparatus is completed by enveloping it completely in a wrapper ofpaper which is pasted on to cover all exterior joints or openings,except the delivery-mouth,when the apparatus is in use, so that theinterior cannot be reached without disfiguring the case in such a way aswould render detection certain.

Fig. 5 is a section of the apparatus differing from that described abovein that thelips or detectors are formed from the same piece of cardboardB which forms the scroll-like walls of the box.

Fig. 6 shows a side view of an app ratus so made before the paper orenvelope has been applied and cemented over it, as to cover the externalopening made in forming the lip. Each lip is, as will be seen, obtainedby makinga three-sided incision in the cardboard and doubling over thetongue so produced in the manner the drawings indicate.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation, and Fig. 8 is a vertical section, of anapparatus in which the paper to form the tickets is not wound upon aroller, but is folded upon itself along the line of indentations, whichseparate one ticket from another.

The box consists of two card-board ends, H H, connected by sides I I,(either in one or more pieces,) which not only form the outer walls ofthe box, but also inclose within it a chamber, K, to receive the foldedstrip to form the tickets, and a guide-channel from this chamber to theexit or delivery mouth at M. In this guide-channel L lips or detectors NN are provided, as already described, and shown in Figs. 2 and 5, and inaddition to these we also provide guide-fingers O O, to control thepaper as it passes out of the chamber K. These guidefingers consist ofstrips of card-board P and Q Q. The piece Pis fixed to the ends of thebox so that it is comparatively rigid, and it carries another piece, Q,cemented to it and not to the ends of the box, so that this piece yieldsand exerts only a light pressure upon the strip of paper as it passesout of the chamber. The opposite finger, Q, is cemented to the side I,but not to the ends of the box, and it also is flexible, and exerts sucha pressure upon the strip as to control it in its passage, but it yieldsto a light strain and allows it to pass. But for these fingers thecontinuous paper would be liable to become disarranged and crumpled whenthe end is pulled to withdraw the tickets from the box, in placeofpassing out regularly and evenly, as required.

Having thus particularly described and as certained the nature of oursaid invention and in what'manncr the same is to be performed, wedeclare that what we claim is 1. As an improvement in apparatus forcontaining anddelivering a continuous strip of tickets, the closedcard-board box provided with means forsupporting within it thecontinuous strip of tickets, having the interior guide-channelterminating in a deliverymouth, and provided with the flexible lipssecured to the opposite walls of the guide channel, and between whichlips the strip of tickets passes as drawn from the deliverymouth,substantially as and for the purpose set forth. a

2. The card-board box provided with means for supporting within it thecontinuous strip of tickets, and formed of the end parts and the.

side or periphery part united thereto, and one end of which overlaps theother to provide the interior guide-channel, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the box having'the interior guide-channel,1neansfor supporting a continuous strip of tickets in the box, and the severalpairs of flexible lips in the guidechannel, between which lips the stripof tickets passes, substantially as and for the purpose set .forth.

4. The combination ofthe box provided with the guide-channel and themouth for delivering the continuous strip of tickets, means forsupporting the strip within the box, the flexible lips in theguideway-channel, and the envelope secured about the box, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE ALBERT WESTON. I HENRY RANDALL PROCKTER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS JOHN OSMANS, J OHN DEAN,

Both of 17 Gracechurch St, London.

